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Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I'm paying attention to what I have rather than what's missing.

Now I feel free, and hope is creeping back. Maybe because I’m paying attention to what I have rather than what’s missing.
– Doug Cooper

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  3. I’m learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit. – Doug Cooper
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  5. A truly free man is not free ‘from’ anything, nor free ‘to’ anything, he is just free. Free within himself. – Ilyas Kassam
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  7. The rich aren’t paying for luxury – they’re paying for basic humanity. – Lindy West
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  9. Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay. – Keith Ablow
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  25. When compared side by side, my days can barely be distinguished from one another. The only difference is what I do after work and with whom I do it. – Doug Cooper
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